Back-up de­vice

Dig­i­tal images can be lost in a heart­beat: cards lost, cor­rupted or stolen and those pre­cious hol­i­day mem­o­ries lost for­ever. Con­sider a back-up de­vice that will al­low you to copy from a mem­ory card, in­de­pen­dently of any other de­vice. The Hyper­drive Colorspace UDMA 3 is a com­bined card reader, hard drive and screen. A sim­pler op­tion is the West­ern Dig­i­tal My Pass­port Wire­less Wi-Fi Por­ta­ble Hard Drive, which is a hard drive with an SD card reader and a recharge­able bat­tery.

Both have Wi-Fi ca­pa­bil­ity, so you can view your images with a tablet or smart­phone.